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Originally posted on Prison Books Collective: In the summer of 2012, a prisoner who had been repeatedly beaten with impunity by guards at Central Prison’s notorious Unit One began a lawsuit against the prison and against NC DPS. This lawsuit soon expanded to become a class action with seven other prisoners who had had similar…

We have moved into a huge old house in Pittsburgh, and I am scraping old paint off 12-foot ceilings and spackling plaster and painting so I can get this prison book program out of storage! The pipes were stolen so we have no bathroom or running water yet. Can you help us with this problem … Continue reading →

March 2011 “To Whom it May Concern I am an indigent inmate here on the Allred unit. I am currently participating in self-litigation for an aggravated excessive use of force with a serious injury in the District Court Wichita County Texas 78th Judicial District (cause no. 173,737B) because I have no money to hire a … Continue reading →

It certainly felt great to order 70 used dictionaries online…then they started rolling in! It was fantastic when a box of 13 dictionaries came on Wednesday, and we could stack them on the worktable and look through recent letters to find inmates who need dictionaries. We had also sent out dictionary postcards in which we … Continue reading →

We are still working on our web page, longing for a computer geek to show us the way! Please bear with us while our site is still under construction. We also want to share with you some of the wonderful testimonial letters we get from prisoners in a blog called From the Inside Looking Out, … Continue reading →

We volunteers are Rosemary, Helen, Red, Kathy, John, Sandy, Ray, Kim, Jackie, Elva, Lisa, Sue, Jim & others. Spring Grass Book’Em–a project of The Big Idea Book Store and now a ministry of an Episcopal church–has been sending educational books, magazines, and quality fiction to U.S. prisoners for years, and we LOVE to do it … Continue reading →